Boy Admits Sleeping With 5 Dogs As Elders Wants Parents To Atone The ‘gods’

Amid the fear of the Ebola virus in the country, it was with
disbelief that residents of Iguosa community in Ovia North East Local
Government Council of Edo State ran to an uncompleted building in the area to
see an 18-year-old boy, simply identified as Ighodaro, making love to a dog .

Curiously, the dog was said to have enjoyed the s*x before
the crowd stormed the scene. Ighodaro was in JSS 2 before he dropped out from
school, due to the inability of his poor parents to pay his school fees.

He learnt welding, but, while doing that, he became a lover
of dogs.  He confessed to Sunday Vanguard
that he has slept with different dogs five times until this last episode. It
was learnt that a member of the community was passing by the uncompleted
building when he sighted the boy making love to the dog and raised the alarm
that attracted the villagers.

Mr George Ogbonmwa, owner of the dog, expressed  shock at the incident, explaining that when
he saw the young man with the dog, he did not know he had an ulterior
motive.  “I thought he wanted to play
with the dog only for him to end up in an 
uncompleted building where he had canal knowledge of the dog.

This is like another dream to me because I have not seen
this kind of thing in my life before”. Following what the villagers described
as an abomination, the Odionwere (head)of the community, Elder Clifford
Igiehon, was invited to the scene and expressed shock over the incident which
he described as a taboo.

He said,”We have never seen this kind of thing before in
this  community. This is an abominable
act and we don’t want the suspect to come and corrupt other people here.   What he committed was a taboo. We will call
the parents to come and atone the gods but the boy will go on his own, because
we cannot kill him.

But we have killed the dog because that is the first thing
to do. And because we don’t want this kind of taboo to happen again, we decided
to hand the boy over to the police. This kind of thing has never happened before,
the boy has to face the music. The parents will perform traditional rites, it
is going to cost about a hundred thousand Naira.

The boy knows what he is doing, he is not mad. We know him
from the beginning, he was in school before he went to learn welding; may be
the parents could not pay his school fees. We were even shocked he said he has
had s*x with dogs five times; that will tell you he knows what he is doing”.

The community leaders further used the opportunity to appeal
to the police: “Give us more policemen in our area because a lot of evil things
are happening now. Like what the boy did is a taboo and they must cleanse the
land with the appropriate sacrifice. We need the police to be around us so that
these evil happenings will stop”.

The suspect, who spoke to Sunday Vanguard at the Edo State
Police Command Headquarters, Benin-City, said he did not know what was wrong
with him, admitting that he enjoyed s*x with five dogs while two bit him during
the act.  “I learnt welding around Iheya.
I don’t know when I slept with the dog, I slept with dogs five times. Some of
the dogs  bit me, I have been bitten two
times and each time I have a dog bite my grand father will treat me”, he said.

Asked about the tactics he deployed to attract the dogs, Ighodaro stated: “When
I call them, I will be rubbing their head, petting them so that they will feel
free with me. I will be playing with them and they will follow me. They will
bark at me some times, and when I notice that it is serious I will leave them.
Any one that is friendly with me, I take that one to an uncompleted building
and have s*x”.

The suspect who was asked about his girl friend, said he
broke up with her last year and started making love to dogs this year. His
words: “ I had a girlfriend last year but we are no longer together. I started
sleeping with dogs this year around March. I don’t know what is wrong with me.

None of my relations knows I sleep with dogs. In this
particular case, the dog is very familiar with me; so it was easy to lure it
away. While I was having s*x with the dog, one man saw me and ran to inform the
Odionwere. They now came to pick me and they asked the police to go and check
me and see if I have any disease. I don’t know what is wrong with me”.

Vanguard